Protesters Fail to Occupy Singapore

Oct 15, 2011 5:27 am ET

For a group that boasted defiance, and even designed a profile picture on Facebook with the words, “we will not remain silent,” the organizers of the planned Occupy Raffles Place event in Singapore were very quiet.

Despite planning a demonstration in Singapore’s financial district at 2 p.m. Saturday, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and global protests happening across Asia, the organizers themselves failed to turn up. The small crowd at the central square outside Raffles Place MRT station included mostly journalists and photographers, looking listless and bored.